apology and accident

 First an apology.  I had promised to share the answer to Wednesday's riddle with you yesterday and forgot so here it is.  The question was 'can you write down eight eights so they add up to 1000?' And the answer is (drumroll please) 8+88+8+888+8 = 1000.

But now on to today's news.  This afternoon I was driving on East State, heading to a drugstore to get my second Covid booster shot.    I was driving in the left of the two through lanes, innocently minding my own business, slowing down, almost stopped at the traffic light at Carew, when I felt something bump the passenger side of my car and a voice from the car slightly behind and to the right of me say "Oh shit."  I pulled into the right lane in front of him, put on my flashers, turned off the engine and got out to access the damage.  Nothing that would keep me from driving my car, but some nasty scrapes and scratches, with bits of red paint (my car is blue) from the rear seat door back to the fender.  The driver of the other car also got out, explaining that he had opened his car door to toss out, or look for, a cigarette, and it banged into my car.  So I called 911, the officer came in reasonable time, took all our insurance information and we were on our way.  The officer did make the comment that he had never seen an accident like this (I love to be unique) and that if it had happened on any street but State Street, which has very narrow lanes, his car door wouldn't have touched my car.  

OK, keeping my total innocence in mind here, this evening I received a call from one of my insurance company's adjusters asking for my side of the story because the other driver had filed a claim against me saying that he was stopped at the light with his door opened and I banged into him.  This is so wrong on so many levels that I can't wait for his adjustor to call me, which I'm told might happen.  First, he opened his car door as I was passing him. Second, he wasn't near the corner.  I had room to pull over into the right lane in front of him after the accident.  Third, if I had banged into him, wouldn't the damage be on the front of my car?  You get the picture.  Stay tuned, I'm supposed to hear back from someone by next Thursday.  If all goes well, I won't have to pay my deductible, so fingers crossed.

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